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obviously big-time serious business. thank you ken sunshine and gerald poser. >>> up next, a huge week for president obama. he announces his strategy on of stan tomorrow night here on msnbc and elsewhere. he holds a job summit on thursday. and the senate takes up the debate on health care reform today. it's all next in the fix. lots of politics this week. and this is the chevy traverse. it has more cargo space than pilot. including the most space behind the third row. and traverse beats honda on highway gas mileage too. more fuel efficient and 30% more room. maybe traverse can carry that stuff too. the chevy traverse. america's best crossover. compare us to anyone and may the best car win. somewhere in america, there's a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains. there's a hospital where technology has a healing touch. there's a factory giving old industries new life. and there's a train that got a whole city moving again. somewhere in america, the toughest questions are answered every day. because somewhere in a
obviously big-time serious business. thank you ken sunshine and gerald poser. >>> up next, a huge week for president obama. he announces his strategy on of stan tomorrow night here on msnbc and elsewhere. he holds a job summit on thursday. and the senate takes up the debate on health care reform today. it's all next in the fix. lots of politics this week. and this is the chevy traverse. it has more cargo space than pilot. including the most space behind the third row. and traverse...
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>> this is a big deal. you had every kid in america that's said to graduate from high school staring down the barrel of 6.8% of interest rates on the most important student loans and nobody doing anything about it. young people started screaming about it. the young people from rebuild the dream and other groups. the president listened and said this has got to stop. banks are getting their money for next to nothing. why should kids go from 3.4 to 6.8%. $20 billion out of the pockets of the next eight million kids. it's wrong. he stands up. mr. marvelous, mr. mitt romney saying the ryan budget is mafb louse even though it destroys the pell grants flip-flops and chases obama toward the young people saying me too, me too. phony, phony, phony. the reality is that he's got a problem with his party now because the most important republican on this issue virginia fox just last week said she doesn't care about these young people. the quote is, she's tired of hearing kids with $80,000 worth of loans complaining about
>> this is a big deal. you had every kid in america that's said to graduate from high school staring down the barrel of 6.8% of interest rates on the most important student loans and nobody doing anything about it. young people started screaming about it. the young people from rebuild the dream and other groups. the president listened and said this has got to stop. banks are getting their money for next to nothing. why should kids go from 3.4 to 6.8%. $20 billion out of the pockets of the...
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it seems there's a big difference between that and what cheney is doing. >> you're right, but, look, i was not 68 years old. i was 34, 35 when i left the administration. cheney, let's face it, he's had a heart condition. he's got a tremendous reputation in history as the most controversial vice president, most powerful, influential. i almost think, lawrence, he's got an obligation to lay out why he did what he did. he's been out front on the torture issue as they call it. he confronted the president of the united states, obama, on that, and i think what he's saying is if mr. bush wants to go out there and, you know, let history be the judge, i'm not going to do that. i'm going to make the case for what i said and did because i believe it was right and i believe it is still the right thing to do in the interests of the national security, and truth be told, cheney has -- if you talk national security, i think dick cheney still has great credibility with tens of millions of americans on that issue. >> all right. i think i smell book hype here. i'm not -- i have a feeling there's going t
it seems there's a big difference between that and what cheney is doing. >> you're right, but, look, i was not 68 years old. i was 34, 35 when i left the administration. cheney, let's face it, he's had a heart condition. he's got a tremendous reputation in history as the most controversial vice president, most powerful, influential. i almost think, lawrence, he's got an obligation to lay out why he did what he did. he's been out front on the torture issue as they call it. he confronted...
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we only want the big jobs. welcome to theladders. a premium job site for only $100k+ jobs and only $100k+ talent. don't think you can live the american lifestyle without energy. we have all this energy here in the u.s. we have wind. we have solar, obviously. we have lots of oil. i think natural gas is part of the energy mix of the future. i think we have the can-do. we have the capability. we have the technology. the solutions are here. we just need to find them here. call or click today. >>> a brief update for you on the most surprising moment of the night. moment was con mang joe wilson of south carolina hollering, "you lie" at president obama, who was then in the midst of declaring that the e mrillegal immigrants with not be recovered by our reformed health care system. congressman wilson was wrong on a number of levels, including the fact which he was shouting about. apparently he apologized to white house chief of staff rahm emanuel on the phone and has a written apology this evening, i let my emotions get the best of me. when l
we only want the big jobs. welcome to theladders. a premium job site for only $100k+ jobs and only $100k+ talent. don't think you can live the american lifestyle without energy. we have all this energy here in the u.s. we have wind. we have solar, obviously. we have lots of oil. i think natural gas is part of the energy mix of the future. i think we have the can-do. we have the capability. we have the technology. the solutions are here. we just need to find them here. call or click today....
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take this in case i don't live. >> the three words are the big one. the island nation of haiti has suffered its big one and the results are enough to melt the strongest heart and shatter the soul -- >> too many people are dying. we need help. we need help. >> we'll be resolute in our response, and i pledge to the people of haiti that you will have a friend and partner in the united states of america. >> another aftershock, and the people are waving their hands as the ground is shaking. >> the problem in the coming days right up here trying -- the air space is congested already. >> reporter: even now, it is still hard to take in the scale of the devastation and loss of life unleashed in this city tuesday night. >> so we lose it, my mother was -- now, we have somebody here. there is some person. >> we don't have a law to take them out. >> and once we got into haiti, it is truly an unbelievable sight.
take this in case i don't live. >> the three words are the big one. the island nation of haiti has suffered its big one and the results are enough to melt the strongest heart and shatter the soul -- >> too many people are dying. we need help. we need help. >> we'll be resolute in our response, and i pledge to the people of haiti that you will have a friend and partner in the united states of america. >> another aftershock, and the people are waving their hands as the...
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we only want the big jobs. welcome to theladders. a premium job site for only $100k+ jobs and only $100k+ talent. >>> first rush limbaugh says we're trying to make money off him. then he does an hour long interview with the "today" show. first time, the number two story. beck stepped back on his heels when the white house called them out. i see their statements all the time and i mean the smear. what people are going after nixon. it's just a smear campaign. no. smears, it's not nixon, it's o'reilly. if you can't beat them, smear them. >> smear tactics. smearing anyone. glenn beck has been smeared. smear websites. smear factor. to smear us with it. there was smearing going on. smear merchants. smeared the three of us. for my trouble, i was smeared twice. we new msnbc or smear merchants stopped here. >> it's funnier if you think smear is a -- runner up, michel michelle malkin. elementary school kids are saying about the president. she got an e-mail reading, i understand you up loaded a video. i have a u few questions. did owe teach it
we only want the big jobs. welcome to theladders. a premium job site for only $100k+ jobs and only $100k+ talent. >>> first rush limbaugh says we're trying to make money off him. then he does an hour long interview with the "today" show. first time, the number two story. beck stepped back on his heels when the white house called them out. i see their statements all the time and i mean the smear. what people are going after nixon. it's just a smear campaign. no. smears, it's...
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and it's just this big question moving forward. if all of these millions of people are connecting online, what kind of effect they might have. >> i thought it was really interesting, there was one guy you talked to in the article, said he had been a lifelong republican and this was this radicalizing moment. i think i know people who i've interviewed who are unemployed. you know, this is not, it's not a demographic of people you can easily make generalizations about, but there are a lot of people who are used to being politically effective, who are used to a certain political lifestyle, who have credentials, and they're used to having a certain amount of say over their lives and they've had this sort of radicalizing effect. i wonder how much that's driving the organizing you're seeing. >> yeah, i think it absolutely is. so there was an eight-month battle for the unemployment extensions in congress, and specifically in the senate, and you had senators like jim bunning standing up saying, i, this single senator, am going to stop this
and it's just this big question moving forward. if all of these millions of people are connecting online, what kind of effect they might have. >> i thought it was really interesting, there was one guy you talked to in the article, said he had been a lifelong republican and this was this radicalizing moment. i think i know people who i've interviewed who are unemployed. you know, this is not, it's not a demographic of people you can easily make generalizations about, but there are a lot of...
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is back in a big way and in charge of this humanitarian effort. more on that in a moment. >>> but first, on tuesday of this week, barely six hours after the earthquake levelled so much of port-au-prince, we managed to get to someone live on the ground. her name is marie michelle, a new york-based nurse who happened to be in haiti for her mother-in-law's funeral. this is tuesday, the day of the quake, she described surviving that day. >> we ran out to the courtyard. and it was screaming all around us. people screaming, standing on top of the mountain, overlooking the capitol, and a beautiful view turned into basically white dusty cloud. >> turned into a white dusty cloud. she told us that she had had plans to leave haiti the following day on wednesday. she has not left. tonight, three days after we first spoke with marie michelle, we got back through to her. told us she and her family are in her words, fine. she told us she's seen all around her ever since is anything but fine. this is what she told us. >> the pictures aren't even show justice. the
is back in a big way and in charge of this humanitarian effort. more on that in a moment. >>> but first, on tuesday of this week, barely six hours after the earthquake levelled so much of port-au-prince, we managed to get to someone live on the ground. her name is marie michelle, a new york-based nurse who happened to be in haiti for her mother-in-law's funeral. this is tuesday, the day of the quake, she described surviving that day. >> we ran out to the courtyard. and it was...
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>> well, i think it's a big deal. i think the governor and his staff have been working on this for days. they've been in crisis management mode. i tried to piece this together. they think to use the words of one of their staffer, we think we deftly threaded the needle near. they only deftly threaded the needle in the confines of people who vote in republican primaries in places like virginia. for other places, i don't know. they got concerned especially after the attorney general really laid it on with the college students. because bob mcdonnell does have national aspirations and virginia is a different state from what it was a while ago. box mcdonnell got a lot of votes in northern virginia which is the washington suburbs. he wants to portray himself as a moderate compassionate conservative. >> it emerged he wrote a thesis while at pat roberts liberty university which says government policy should favor married couples over co-has been tai tors, gay couples own foreign kay tors. a lot of people said hey, we told you
>> well, i think it's a big deal. i think the governor and his staff have been working on this for days. they've been in crisis management mode. i tried to piece this together. they think to use the words of one of their staffer, we think we deftly threaded the needle near. they only deftly threaded the needle in the confines of people who vote in republican primaries in places like virginia. for other places, i don't know. they got concerned especially after the attorney general really...
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but the big banks, banks over $10 billion will be. people noted, yes, when you except banks under $10 billion you except 20% of the banks but banks above $10 billion are 80% of the banks. they get the full impact of the consumer agency. >> what about the worry that the derivatives market, those great opportunities to finally regulate the derivatives market which it has been a wild west for so long, are there loopholes in the derivative regulations or are we going to get those -- >> not loopholes. there are two types of people who use derivatives. the financials and the banks and investment houses that make money off them. if they are involved between themselves have to go on an exchange and trade in a way, then we have the end users, the airlines, farmers, john deere, boeing, people who use the derivatives legitimately to control for commercial risk. we wanted to push them on to exchanges this, that's what i hope. they had enough political support to say, we're nervous about that. so if you are legitimately ledging for a commercial ri
but the big banks, banks over $10 billion will be. people noted, yes, when you except banks under $10 billion you except 20% of the banks but banks above $10 billion are 80% of the banks. they get the full impact of the consumer agency. >> what about the worry that the derivatives market, those great opportunities to finally regulate the derivatives market which it has been a wild west for so long, are there loopholes in the derivative regulations or are we going to get those -- >>...
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now to discuss the big win by the u.s. was the man who scored the winning goal, ladies and gentleman i pass it to rachel maddow. we can't do that. >> someday we'll get better technology. if you go with mia hamm, can i drive or carry your bag or something? i could hold the vuvuzela for each of you. >> okay. you're on. >> thank you. yes! thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. >>> we have the incredible news about general mcchrystal. we have footage from the front-line fight is in afghanistan. footage that may very well change the way you feel about the mcchrystal news. >>> there's the big new news from the bp oil disaster today. we no longer have that containment dome thing anymore. >>> plus a republican candidate for congress says the bp oil disaster is a conspiracy by the government. >>> and in the midst of all that mess and incredulity, there's actually some good news. some straight up unadulterated good news about the usa. we have an interview with the american goal scoring superman landon donovan t
now to discuss the big win by the u.s. was the man who scored the winning goal, ladies and gentleman i pass it to rachel maddow. we can't do that. >> someday we'll get better technology. if you go with mia hamm, can i drive or carry your bag or something? i could hold the vuvuzela for each of you. >> okay. you're on. >> thank you. yes! thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. >>> we have the incredible news about general mcchrystal. we have footage...
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so it's not a big deal. >> right. yeah. >> it's not afghanistan where it is a much more conservative society. >> in afghanistan whether women are wearing that or not you wouldn't see this many women on the street. >> no. iraq, it was a dictatorship but didn't have an issue with women. women went to university, held government jobs. >> yeah. >> it had a problem with freedom in general. >> yeah. >> but women wouldn't have been the issue they had. they had other problems. >> yeah. so right now we're sort of in between the district and downtown. when we were getting ready to leave this morning there was a big bombing, 41 people killed. >> not far from here. >> so we're sort of in central baghdad. that was in northeast baghdad. >> that was in an area where it was a rocky military base. >> the recruiting center right? >> and they were more than 40 people killed. >> yeah. >> all army recruits. there have been a lot of attacks against police and security services. >> since we've been here that's what i've been reading about m
so it's not a big deal. >> right. yeah. >> it's not afghanistan where it is a much more conservative society. >> in afghanistan whether women are wearing that or not you wouldn't see this many women on the street. >> no. iraq, it was a dictatorship but didn't have an issue with women. women went to university, held government jobs. >> yeah. >> it had a problem with freedom in general. >> yeah. >> but women wouldn't have been the issue they had....
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in florida, it's going to have a big impact. even in montana and ohio, it had a big impact. >> crazy linda mcmahon, in connecticut, who would normally
in florida, it's going to have a big impact. even in montana and ohio, it had a big impact. >> crazy linda mcmahon, in connecticut, who would normally
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big caliber, heavy aomatic weapon, two and three shots at a time. in one corner i'm watching them take out wounded. it's such a bizarre light here in cairo. one of the hotels here on the square put a memo to the guests that the pool would be closed today because of, quote, current conditions. lester holt was out doing a story on an american woman's life here in cairo, and she was driving around saying how normal it was. the car was stopped by mubarak supporters in lester later learned was out in the suburban part of the city. >> in terms of the conditions of life in cairo right now, are things becoming more desperate in terms of access to the basics, access to food, access to water, access to cash and basic services? is that driving some of the sense of desperation? >> reporter: remember, the schools have not been opened since this started. that caused a presence of the lot of the children who did come to the anti-government -- the first round of protests. and they witnessed it happening. just yesterday, richard and i were walking through this very
big caliber, heavy aomatic weapon, two and three shots at a time. in one corner i'm watching them take out wounded. it's such a bizarre light here in cairo. one of the hotels here on the square put a memo to the guests that the pool would be closed today because of, quote, current conditions. lester holt was out doing a story on an american woman's life here in cairo, and she was driving around saying how normal it was. the car was stopped by mubarak supporters in lester later learned was out...
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you can't not know how big this disaster is. i went to a grave yard today and there was into no room in the graveyard for the bodies that they were burying. they dug a hole between two grave sites which was about that wide and they placed a family of four bodies in there and covered them up. and that's people who want to bury their loved ones. there are so many bodies on the street and this is a tropical climate. i'm probably sunburned you can see. it's been hot here today. it'll be hot here again tomorrow. those bodies are now sitting outside for -- calculate the days for me, i'm a little lost on it but, you know, the decay will begin, disease will pick up. people who are exhausted, unfed, have not had water, have immunity systems down because of all of this are now going to be exposed to yet one more potential problem. >> kerry, my second question can't possibly follow the extraordinary word picture you just painted there, so i'll let you go with our great thanks. kerry sanders of nbc news at port-au-prince. great reporting an
you can't not know how big this disaster is. i went to a grave yard today and there was into no room in the graveyard for the bodies that they were burying. they dug a hole between two grave sites which was about that wide and they placed a family of four bodies in there and covered them up. and that's people who want to bury their loved ones. there are so many bodies on the street and this is a tropical climate. i'm probably sunburned you can see. it's been hot here today. it'll be hot here...
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plus, there was a big fat political joke played at the national press club today. we have the tape of that. it's all ahead. >>> but we begin with high stakes negotiations going on tonight inside the building that is over my shoulder, the u.s. capitol back there. a small exclusive team of negotiators gathered behind closed doors attempting to hammer out the senate version of the biggest change in american domestic policy since at least the beatles, maybe since the days of shirley temple and cole porter. democrats in the white house have to make two senate bills into one, which then needs to pals the senate, which nieds to be brought to terms with what passes the house. negotiations now are about what exactly democrats want reform to be like. the opposition to health reform appears to have gone mostly silent or at least mostly wildly off message. take senator jon kyl of oklahoma. he said this -- >> i'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance. but because they don't have health insurance, the care is not deliver
plus, there was a big fat political joke played at the national press club today. we have the tape of that. it's all ahead. >>> but we begin with high stakes negotiations going on tonight inside the building that is over my shoulder, the u.s. capitol back there. a small exclusive team of negotiators gathered behind closed doors attempting to hammer out the senate version of the biggest change in american domestic policy since at least the beatles, maybe since the days of shirley temple...
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the big fin eish tonight. the guys who told america to whip it in the '80s are out with a song to tell viewers to remember seamus this november. the group released "don't roof rack me bro" that pays tribute to mitt romney's irish setter. years ago mitt romney strapped seamus to the roof of the family station wagon and drove on vacation. according to ann romney, seamus loved the experience. >> the dog loved it. >> the dog got sick, right? >> once. we travel all the time. and he ate the turkey on the counter. i mean, he had the runs. >> years later the story just keeps hounding romney. even president obama had some fun at romney's expense just the other day. >> that's what he said about wind power, you can't drive a car with a windmill on it. now, i -- i don't know if he's actually tried that. i know he's had other things on his car. >> now, jared casale, founding member of devo, has joined forces with the group, dogs against romney, and wrote the song "don't roof rack me bro." take a listen. ♪ don't roof rack
the big fin eish tonight. the guys who told america to whip it in the '80s are out with a song to tell viewers to remember seamus this november. the group released "don't roof rack me bro" that pays tribute to mitt romney's irish setter. years ago mitt romney strapped seamus to the roof of the family station wagon and drove on vacation. according to ann romney, seamus loved the experience. >> the dog loved it. >> the dog got sick, right? >> once. we travel all the...
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it's a big, big state. there's so much money here. people talk about hollywood money like it's democratic money. but there's hollywood money for republicans. there's development, investment bank money for republicans. people treat us like an atm. and it's not terribly surprising. there's also a lot of media. there are two, actually exciting races here with the governor's seat being opened. so. >> thank you. >> i think that's -- >> who wins by way, one-word answer, palin or mitt romney, the nomination next time? bet right now. >> i can't say neither. they're my only choices? >> okay, baby, you just said neither. thank you, joan walsh. think it's your heart talking. >>> up next, stephen colbert tries to figure out the british election. we're all trying to figure that one out. stick around for the "sideshow." i thought it was simple over there. it ain't. [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time... time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze... my eyes water. but now zyrtec®, the fastest 24-hour allergy relief, comes in a new li
it's a big, big state. there's so much money here. people talk about hollywood money like it's democratic money. but there's hollywood money for republicans. there's development, investment bank money for republicans. people treat us like an atm. and it's not terribly surprising. there's also a lot of media. there are two, actually exciting races here with the governor's seat being opened. so. >> thank you. >> i think that's -- >> who wins by way, one-word answer, palin or...
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so the big things on the agenda are the excise tax, right? this is something that you're just not going to get the house to vote for. they're going to have to amend it along the lines of what they did in the conference committee before massachusetts. national exchanges as opposed to state-run exchanges. the subsidy level. it looks plausible that all of those things could make it through the byrd rule and be in reconciliation. >> what's the likelihood that those three things -- say if we have those three things, national versus state exchanges, the excise tax issue and the level of subsidy, how hard to get 50 votes for that in the senate in. >> i don't think -- i don't think it's going to be that hard to get 50 votes. it's this interesting pacing and momentum issue. which is to say once the ball gets rolling, once everyone gets behind in the senate committed to the reconciliation process, i don't think you would lose ten votes or i guess nine votes now in the caucus on those specific amended changes. you can get the 50 votes you need. the ques
so the big things on the agenda are the excise tax, right? this is something that you're just not going to get the house to vote for. they're going to have to amend it along the lines of what they did in the conference committee before massachusetts. national exchanges as opposed to state-run exchanges. the subsidy level. it looks plausible that all of those things could make it through the byrd rule and be in reconciliation. >> what's the likelihood that those three things -- say if we...
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i think he would be great on the big bang theory. >> yes. i'm sure you get additional evidence for that when "playgirl" comes out. we go online, right? i wouldn't, no. shifting to mr. delay. he's no longer on "dancing." >> that was a way to avoid jail. tom delay, if i could keep going here. >> when you are seeking re-election and i'm trying to cover for you. i'm going to fail. go ahead. >> he should give himself up to authorities. the jig, as it were is up. i don't know why nobody said this, but hammer, don't hurt yourself. >> he was on "dancing with the stars." it's a step up, isn't it? >> no, in jail you are probably if a reality show anyhow. >> is there a reality show to be based on a politician in our future? >> blago could be. >> sheer genius, yeah. >> you know that? >> no, it's written here. sheer genius. >> donald trump would be the judge. >> i would like to see them in bottom chef or al sharpton in the amazing race card. >> oh. the last one, i can't do anything about the first one. the last one, almost anybody could appear there. the
i think he would be great on the big bang theory. >> yes. i'm sure you get additional evidence for that when "playgirl" comes out. we go online, right? i wouldn't, no. shifting to mr. delay. he's no longer on "dancing." >> that was a way to avoid jail. tom delay, if i could keep going here. >> when you are seeking re-election and i'm trying to cover for you. i'm going to fail. go ahead. >> he should give himself up to authorities. the jig, as it were...
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stop too big to fail. the group's responsible for a $1 million-plus anti-wall street reform ad buy, plus an anti-wall street -- a series of anti-wall street reform postings on some liberal websites. the credentials used to include but looked like an endorsement on their website from the former commander in chief economist of the imf and professor johnson who believes wall street needs to do more to restrict the size of the biggest banks. mr. johnson's appeared on this website, the stop too big to fail website after he par dis tis pated in a conference call with the group. he explained his views about wall street reform. mr. johnson's photo was finally removed from the website at mr. johnson's request after he got word that this group was sponsoring a $1.6 million ad campaign to defeat wall street reform altogether. which is not what he's about. how do folks get in touch with mr. johnson to participate in the conference call? oliver wolf contacted him. he works for a company called dci group. we left a mess
stop too big to fail. the group's responsible for a $1 million-plus anti-wall street reform ad buy, plus an anti-wall street -- a series of anti-wall street reform postings on some liberal websites. the credentials used to include but looked like an endorsement on their website from the former commander in chief economist of the imf and professor johnson who believes wall street needs to do more to restrict the size of the biggest banks. mr. johnson's appeared on this website, the stop too big...
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i guess that's the big question. and i think the first thing you do is you stop pretending to negotiate with republicans when republicans have no intention of negotiating in good faith and you try to pass good bills. and you may lose some of those votes, but that's okay, because then we know who are obstructing and we can make an electoral case why we need to elect better democrats and more democrats. that's what you have to do. but capitulating and conceding and negotiating with people who have no interest in negotiating with good faith, that's a sure recipe for turning people skbin nonvoters. i'm going to vote and probably most people watching this show are probably going to vote. but it's those people that are peripherally engaged in politics. they're the ones most at risk of not turning out. >> what, ultimately, the way this thing has -- the word of the moment is trajectory -- the trajectory of this entire process, what do you see as the worst-case scenario at the end of that trajectory for the president? is it t
i guess that's the big question. and i think the first thing you do is you stop pretending to negotiate with republicans when republicans have no intention of negotiating in good faith and you try to pass good bills. and you may lose some of those votes, but that's okay, because then we know who are obstructing and we can make an electoral case why we need to elect better democrats and more democrats. that's what you have to do. but capitulating and conceding and negotiating with people who...
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we have other a big day going through all the amendments. i'm sorry if any of the nerd stuff wafted down your way. >> we're used to it by now. >> i'm sorry. you notice that we're all wearing calculator watches, too. i think the staff is going in the wrong direction. >> good luck with that. >> thank you. appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. you thought i was kidding about the calculator watch, didn't you? we all wear them ever since geek week. all right. this next hour, is sort of news you don't expect. congress is in washington at a time we never expect congress to be in washington. a whole lot of police officers have detained at gun point someone you really never expect police to detain at gunpoint. someone no one expects to do an interview on this tv show seems to could not speed maybe she'll do an interview on this tv show, and controversy about the really anti-gay republican candidate getting money from target and best buy. that controversy takes a whiplash completely unexpected turn into hair band
we have other a big day going through all the amendments. i'm sorry if any of the nerd stuff wafted down your way. >> we're used to it by now. >> i'm sorry. you notice that we're all wearing calculator watches, too. i think the staff is going in the wrong direction. >> good luck with that. >> thank you. appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. you thought i was kidding about the calculator watch, didn't you? we all wear them ever since...
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to fail is too big, that these banks just can't be that big, these five or six huge banks. let me give you one statistic about that. 15 years ago the assets combined of the six largest banks in america were 17% of the gross domestic product. today the six largest banks' combined assets make up 63% of gross domestic product. that's a serious problem when a small number of humongous entities have that kind of financial power over our country. that's why the amendment that we're working on is so important. but we want a chance to offer it. if it doesn't pass, i'll be sorely disappointed, but you still work on this. we've got opportunities to make this bill better, and on both sides, in the end, let's have at it. >> senator sherrod brown of ohio. i don't know how you do it every day in the senate, and still retain your sanity, but congratulations on both and best of luck with this. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >>> oh, for the days when republicans would debate things with a democratic president the way a new york yankees executive debalted with the president today in the
to fail is too big, that these banks just can't be that big, these five or six huge banks. let me give you one statistic about that. 15 years ago the assets combined of the six largest banks in america were 17% of the gross domestic product. today the six largest banks' combined assets make up 63% of gross domestic product. that's a serious problem when a small number of humongous entities have that kind of financial power over our country. that's why the amendment that we're working on is so...
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but we begin with one big holding story in today's news. when politics gets crazy, when political debate zardz tdiscard the facts, those of white house make a living talking about the news sometimes have a little bit of a dlilemma. to represent the character of a political debate, you have to point it out if someone in that deep is making stuff up or if they don't appear to understand what they're saying. in order to give an accurate portrayal of what's going on. it's important to point out when people are lying. the dilemma is that even negative attention is still attention. the time it takes on a tv show like this one to point out that someone is a liar is national media attention being devoted to a liar. a liar who probably is lofrg at tension and therefore is being rewarded for their lying. it's a dilemma. but is the dilemma that can be solved. >> did you see betsy mccaughey on the daily show last night? as we reported, betsy mccaughey is responsible for the conspiracy theory of the american people to create living wills is now somehow
but we begin with one big holding story in today's news. when politics gets crazy, when political debate zardz tdiscard the facts, those of white house make a living talking about the news sometimes have a little bit of a dlilemma. to represent the character of a political debate, you have to point it out if someone in that deep is making stuff up or if they don't appear to understand what they're saying. in order to give an accurate portrayal of what's going on. it's important to point out...
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i'm sure it is just a big coincidence, it's just a big spooky coincidence. with you when you're ready for the next move. [ male announcer ] now that wells fargo and wachovia have come together, what's in it for you? unprecedented strength, the stability of the leading community bank in the nation and with 12,000 atms and thousands of branches, we're with you in more ways and places than ever before. with you when you want the most from your bank. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. together we'll go far. a rich and airy treat. ♪ because after you've washed the bills... and paid all the dishes... it's finally me o'clock. enjoy it with mousse temptations. three decadent flavors. 60 calories. it's me o'clock. time for jell-o. trugreen's taught me a lot. like how every lawn is different. some people want a place to play... others, a place to chill. yo, b. but i've learned from trugreen if you treat every lawn special, the sky's the limit. i'm gonna go public next summer. what's crackin, baby?! bobby! [ male announcer ] call 877-trugreen and get a customized plan f
i'm sure it is just a big coincidence, it's just a big spooky coincidence. with you when you're ready for the next move. [ male announcer ] now that wells fargo and wachovia have come together, what's in it for you? unprecedented strength, the stability of the leading community bank in the nation and with 12,000 atms and thousands of branches, we're with you in more ways and places than ever before. with you when you want the most from your bank. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. together we'll...
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and that's a big worry that we all have. how are they going to get all this oil out? is there even a chance to get all the oil out? and how much oil will be left behind if and when it starts getting into our coastline. this isn't going to be one of the areas that's first affected, you know, but we don't have a solid coastline. all of these coastal marshes we have are interconnected. so if we start getting oil back up in our marshes, there's no telling where it's going to turn up. and how and when we would ever find it. >> in terms of the options that they've got right now for how to deal with this, i don't even want to call it a spill because it's not like it's a confine thing that's spilled, charlie crist today or yesterday called it an underwater volcano of oil because it's not stopped. but in terms of the options they've got in terms of stopping it, they're talking about trying to cap it and sort of vacuum the oil to the surface. they've talked about putting the dispersants down under sea by the source of the leak and dispersing the oil that way. do you have any se
and that's a big worry that we all have. how are they going to get all this oil out? is there even a chance to get all the oil out? and how much oil will be left behind if and when it starts getting into our coastline. this isn't going to be one of the areas that's first affected, you know, but we don't have a solid coastline. all of these coastal marshes we have are interconnected. so if we start getting oil back up in our marshes, there's no telling where it's going to turn up. and how and...
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. >> joel, in the national, statistical picture, the big focus of it, we have studies indicating 85% of lgbt students surveyed nationally say they have been bullied at school. this is, by no means, individualized to particular school districts. >> absolutely. again, it is a nationwide problem, but there are cultures created within these school districts about how to deal with it, and you find in areas either in states or school districts where the -- they have policies prohibiting this type of activity of bullying and of prohibiting any kind of discussion about homosexuality. the suicide rates amongst lgbt teens are much lower. that's something proved out in a variety of places, the fact it's higher in anoka-hennepin point to problems there. >> joel burns, thank you for returning to "the last word" tonight. where you made your network television today buh and in the process won a glad award. thanks for joining us again. >> i'm happy to be here and i hope the congresswoman ends her silence soon. >> thank you, joel. thank you. you can have the last word
. >> joel, in the national, statistical picture, the big focus of it, we have studies indicating 85% of lgbt students surveyed nationally say they have been bullied at school. this is, by no means, individualized to particular school districts. >> absolutely. again, it is a nationwide problem, but there are cultures created within these school districts about how to deal with it, and you find in areas either in states or school districts where the -- they have policies prohibiting...
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at least 290 pieces of legislation passed by the house of representatives this congress including big ones are still sitting in the senate awaiting action. there is no speaker pelosi can do. but she has made known her frustration with the broken senate. she may have gone farther than she has ever gone in saying she wants the senate to get it act together. >> we were in this room, i think, about a year ago, the last time that we sat down. at that time you had just passed the stimulus bill with zero republican votes. that strategy by the republicans, they came off poorly using that strategy. we didn't know then whether they would keep using that strategy and they really have. so a year later do they still come off poorly for using that strategy or has it been smart? has it made you be adept strategically in order to get around them? >> all i know is what we do. the poster child for the republican strategy is jim bunning. it proves 99 senators are not enough. one senator can hold up unemployment insurance checks. can have people be put out of work or working on highway system and the res
at least 290 pieces of legislation passed by the house of representatives this congress including big ones are still sitting in the senate awaiting action. there is no speaker pelosi can do. but she has made known her frustration with the broken senate. she may have gone farther than she has ever gone in saying she wants the senate to get it act together. >> we were in this room, i think, about a year ago, the last time that we sat down. at that time you had just passed the stimulus bill...
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politically this is obviously a big joe barton problem. joe barton is a former executive at the old oil company arco. his singlest biggest contributor is one that owns one-fourth of the deepwater horizon well, which may explain why this isn't even the first time this week that joe barton expressed sympathy for bp. >> this reminds me a little bit of monday morning call-in radio talk show after the redskins have blown another one. everybody has an idea what should have been done. now that they know what was done and it wasn't done properly, they're much smarter than the coach on the field and the quarterback on the field at the time. it's very easy to second-guess and to point out the problems. >> it's so easy to say, this was done wrong and that was done wrong. it's so easy. what exactly is the alternative to doing that, congressman barton? what would you rather us be doing at this point, if not that? something did go wrong. there are problems to be pointed out. should we just say, oops, and ignore what's going on with bp from hear on out?
politically this is obviously a big joe barton problem. joe barton is a former executive at the old oil company arco. his singlest biggest contributor is one that owns one-fourth of the deepwater horizon well, which may explain why this isn't even the first time this week that joe barton expressed sympathy for bp. >> this reminds me a little bit of monday morning call-in radio talk show after the redskins have blown another one. everybody has an idea what should have been done. now that...
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we treated this like a big civic opportunity. i was 11 years old, so it was the first one i was aware of, and it was just a tremendous -- i can't quite get across the magnitude that it had for a kid. you're suggesting this is still in effect now. >> my kids are so excited, they took it. i don't know where the form is. but we'll find it. >> is there -- in terms of the congressional seat reapportionment, who stands to benefit the most from everybody being counted at this point? do we know? >> often it's growing areas of the country, and that's often -- it's been in the sunshine belt, the sun belt, where it tends to be conservatives. people in texas where they've had had low rates of returns were very worried. they're expecting to get four new texas seats out of this census, and those seats will tend to be republican seats. so that's one reason why the republican party, a lot of them ganged up on michele bachmann last year and said, cool it. we want people to fill out these forms because we think the areas are growing where we can p
we treated this like a big civic opportunity. i was 11 years old, so it was the first one i was aware of, and it was just a tremendous -- i can't quite get across the magnitude that it had for a kid. you're suggesting this is still in effect now. >> my kids are so excited, they took it. i don't know where the form is. but we'll find it. >> is there -- in terms of the congressional seat reapportionment, who stands to benefit the most from everybody being counted at this point? do we...
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i don't see it as a big deal. >> is he the big dog? >> he still is the big dog. >> is he "the" big dog? >> he is a big dog. >> don't pull your sail here. let's go home cooking here. harry reid running against sharron angle. that election is going to be down to the nail. who do you want coming in for you, the president or the former president? >> the president. >> who do you want? >> i want both. >> oh! >> but i'll take -- >> in pennsylvania. who do you want in there? >> bill clinton. >> i'm going to catch you one of these days. no? >> no. >> let's say you're any candidate. a democrat up for re-election. >> how about chicago is? >> anybody. and you don't want the president because you think your constituents don't want big government. they're not happy with the health care bill. they're not happy with the environmental stuff. they're not happy with the financial bailout. you invite bill clinton. he's not going to adopt those views for you. he believes exactly what barack obama believes. >> former presidents are more popular than current
i don't see it as a big deal. >> is he the big dog? >> he still is the big dog. >> is he "the" big dog? >> he is a big dog. >> don't pull your sail here. let's go home cooking here. harry reid running against sharron angle. that election is going to be down to the nail. who do you want coming in for you, the president or the former president? >> the president. >> who do you want? >> i want both. >> oh! >> but i'll take --...
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now for tonight's big number. how many americans know that it was president bush who enacted t.a.r.p., that $700 billion bank bailout? well, according to a new pew survey, just 4% of us. almost half, 47% think it was president obama who did it. just one-third of americans know president bush, his team engineered the big bank bailout. just 34%. tonight's not so big number. boy, is that important. up next, republicans say they're against government spending. why can't any of them say what programs they would cut if they were in charge? it happened again this weekend on "meet the press." we're going to try to get some answers out of republican leader, u.s. congressman mike pence coming up next here. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> i'm hampton pearson with not that long ago, many families were priced out of an overheated housing market. but the times have changed. get the facts at remax.com. it's a great place to see all the listings in thousands of cities and towns. with lots of houses to chose from and
now for tonight's big number. how many americans know that it was president bush who enacted t.a.r.p., that $700 billion bank bailout? well, according to a new pew survey, just 4% of us. almost half, 47% think it was president obama who did it. just one-third of americans know president bush, his team engineered the big bank bailout. just 34%. tonight's not so big number. boy, is that important. up next, republicans say they're against government spending. why can't any of them say what...
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meanwhile, immigration has become a big issue. the democrats didn't have to do it but the republicans in arizona did it for them. >> in terms of what arizona is doing -- in terms of arizona's actions affecting the national discussion, what do you make of arizona's legislator and the governor amending the bill today? it seems to me these changes are designed to take the heat off but they probably won't. i think we're still in the papers please situation. >> oh, i think definitely we're still in the papers please situation. you say, okay, we take race out of the picture, you can't use race as your sole motivation. there was also a provision in the legislation saying don't just use -- >> well, don't solely use. you can use race and color. >> exactly. but the point being that -- what is the point of this bill, right? let's be realistic. there's a provision that says, citizens can sue police if they're not aggressively trying to enforce this law. which is an outrageous and very weird kind of provision to have in a law. and i think a ci
meanwhile, immigration has become a big issue. the democrats didn't have to do it but the republicans in arizona did it for them. >> in terms of what arizona is doing -- in terms of arizona's actions affecting the national discussion, what do you make of arizona's legislator and the governor amending the bill today? it seems to me these changes are designed to take the heat off but they probably won't. i think we're still in the papers please situation. >> oh, i think definitely...
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a day of reckoning and a day for republicans to stand united against the problem of regulating the big banks. sherrard brown joins us live. according to some from arizona, the new immigrant law is not arizona's fault. >> that legislation was enacted by the arizona legislateture and signed because of the frustration that the governor and the majority of my constituents have incredible frustration over the federal government's failure. >> ah, so it's the federal government's fault. and who's stopping the federal government from doing something? very specific nameable parts of the federal government. him. you guys know your part of the federal government, right? meanwhile, back in bewareizona, the state faces the threat of boycot boycotts. >> hope that we meet again on -- better circumstances. >> and the dark side of drill, baby, drill. continues to play out closer and closer to the american gulf coast. tonight, the science of dealing with a massive oil spill that keeps getting more massive. and the marketing master minds behind the rnc's quasi census fake funding letters. this is good. t
a day of reckoning and a day for republicans to stand united against the problem of regulating the big banks. sherrard brown joins us live. according to some from arizona, the new immigrant law is not arizona's fault. >> that legislation was enacted by the arizona legislateture and signed because of the frustration that the governor and the majority of my constituents have incredible frustration over the federal government's failure. >> ah, so it's the federal government's fault....
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there is a big push. people want reconciliation, and that is one of the key things that i think people don't understand. unlike in iraq, where people hated the militant groups that were fighting. here, the taliban is unpopular. only about 6% of the people want the taliban to come back. but they're not seen as occupiers, or they're not seen as outsiders. they're seen as part of the society here that should be brought back into the fold. they're not mostly -- the taliban are not largely by and large attacking civilians in this country. once again, compared to iraq, you had market bombings, al qaeda militants that were killing civilians by the dozens every single day. here, it's mostly a conflict between the taliban and foreign forces in this country. people are hoping that there can be some sort of reconciliation between the two. >> richard, one last quick logistical question and it's something that's come up a lot today when the president announced this troop increase would be phased in much more quickly t
there is a big push. people want reconciliation, and that is one of the key things that i think people don't understand. unlike in iraq, where people hated the militant groups that were fighting. here, the taliban is unpopular. only about 6% of the people want the taliban to come back. but they're not seen as occupiers, or they're not seen as outsiders. they're seen as part of the society here that should be brought back into the fold. they're not mostly -- the taliban are not largely by and...
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so she has a lot of the attributes that could make her a big, big player in republican politics, but she has to make that decision on herself. like, what does she want to do with this political career. and it's not sure she knows what she wants to do right now. >> susan, it seems to me like she has the power, maybe not to get elected president, but to set the direction. we had a subject on this show about the what cos that are questioning the citizenship of barack obama. there are some only narrowly saying, in terms of the normal relationship that we discuss, that honestly think barack obama somehow snuck into the presidency seat, that he's a foreigner. >> i think sarah palin may see her base as somewhat different than the nutty fringe. the fact is, one of the thing wes like about sarah palin, that makes her appealing, is that she doesn't stick to the republican line. she's going to be -- i assume she's going to be unpredictable in that way. to be able to get a lot of attention and the republicans in washington will not be able to control what she says. that's why she'll be worth lis
so she has a lot of the attributes that could make her a big, big player in republican politics, but she has to make that decision on herself. like, what does she want to do with this political career. and it's not sure she knows what she wants to do right now. >> susan, it seems to me like she has the power, maybe not to get elected president, but to set the direction. we had a subject on this show about the what cos that are questioning the citizenship of barack obama. there are some...
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it's a big impressive number. members of the 600 club include ken griffey, jr., willie mays, babe ruth, hank aaron, and, of course, darth vader music, barry bonds. the yankees third baseman alex rodriguez turns 35 today, and he is on the cusp of becoming the seventh and youngest member of the 600 club. he's just one home run away. so why isn't this a bigger deal? why isn't the entire country whipped up into a home run frenzy chomping at the bit every time the slugger steps up to home plate? why did one new york state paper poll readers online to see if they even care? maybe it's because about 40% of respondents do not, and this is in new york. now, i should admit i'm a huge sports fan. i love baseball. i'm obsessed with basketball. i follow the chicago bulls the way day traders follow currency fluctuations. the kyle korver trade made my heart flutter. i'm also a pretty big nerd as well but the point is for sports fan, it is a huge task to escape wall-to-wall talk about alex rodriguez. he is one of the most covered
it's a big impressive number. members of the 600 club include ken griffey, jr., willie mays, babe ruth, hank aaron, and, of course, darth vader music, barry bonds. the yankees third baseman alex rodriguez turns 35 today, and he is on the cusp of becoming the seventh and youngest member of the 600 club. he's just one home run away. so why isn't this a bigger deal? why isn't the entire country whipped up into a home run frenzy chomping at the bit every time the slugger steps up to home plate? why...
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i'm a big boy. >> in the newest reality show, rich people pretend to like times square pizza. >> joan of anchorage is back just to time to cure my ptsd, post trump sadness disorder. >> sarah palin in new york this morning is eating pizza in times square with donald trump. >> everybody in new york wants to chat with donald trump and have a slice of pizza. >> two kids having lunch. just chatting each other up. >> republicans are so bummed about their candidates that they're still trying to recruit more bad candidates. >> chris christie wants to cut your pension, but look at him fly around in his helicopter. >> let's talk about this helicopter. >> he took his helicopter to his son's baseball got. got into a limo and drove over to the field. >> not the best political imagery right now. >> there are people at home looking for opportunities to take out the knife. >>> good evening from los angeles. where sex scandals are taken far less seriously than they are in washington. indeed, washington takes sex scandals more seriously than ç possibly anywhere else in the world including the vatican
i'm a big boy. >> in the newest reality show, rich people pretend to like times square pizza. >> joan of anchorage is back just to time to cure my ptsd, post trump sadness disorder. >> sarah palin in new york this morning is eating pizza in times square with donald trump. >> everybody in new york wants to chat with donald trump and have a slice of pizza. >> two kids having lunch. just chatting each other up. >> republicans are so bummed about their candidates...
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democrats have such big majorities if both houses of congress that they have big majorities on every committee as well. so on the senate finance committee, there are three more democrats than there are republicans, but max baucus, the chair of that committee, inexplicably decided to give up his own party's majority and instead of negotiating in the committee, which is the way laws are made, he decided to just work it out with a gang of six with three democrats and three republicans, as if the election never happened. as if democrats and republicans had equal numbers if the senate, which they don't. and what was the result? the supposed negotiations in this bipartisan kumbaya gang of six senators stretched on and on and on, and because it was taking so long to execute this awesome bit of max baucus ext strategicry, any chance that health reform might get done before the august recess, like the white house wanted, was destroyed. looking back now, it seemed crazy that the democratic leadership had even conceived of getting health reform done by last summer, but it could have been done i
democrats have such big majorities if both houses of congress that they have big majorities on every committee as well. so on the senate finance committee, there are three more democrats than there are republicans, but max baucus, the chair of that committee, inexplicably decided to give up his own party's majority and instead of negotiating in the committee, which is the way laws are made, he decided to just work it out with a gang of six with three democrats and three republicans, as if the...
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big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big has been because of the teachers and the education that i had. they're just part of who i am. she convinced me that there was no limit to what we could learn. i don't think i'd be here today had i not had a wonderful science teacher. a teacher can make a huge difference in a child's life. he would never give up on any of us. thank you dr. newfield. you had a big impact on me. >>> yetd on my show, we played a piece of tape of mitt romney that's gotten a lot of attention. it's mitt romney in his own words unraveling his latest campaign yarn. he last week was outraged, just outraged that a democratic consultant not associated with the obama campaign used the word work to mean working for a money. a job that provides income. it is just how mitt romney used the word in january when describing how as governor he amended welfare requirements in massachusetts. >> i said, for instance, ev
big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big has been because of the teachers and the education that i had. they're just part of who i am. she convinced me that there was no limit to what we could learn. i don't think i'd be here today had i not had a wonderful science teacher. a teacher can make a huge difference in a...
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how big is this? >> well i think it's big. the family research council is not the entire conservative base by any means, but tony perkins is is a pretty sophisticated player. behind the scenes, he says, because i talked to him about an hour ago. he said, look, i've been trying to help michael steele out for the last year. help him survive. because michael steele only won narrowly to become chairman to begin with. two weeks ago, michael steele hired to represent the rnc in a campaign finance case, ted olson, who is a very well-credentialed conservative lawyer. his crime is trying to overturn prop 8 in california and trying to end bans on gay marriage around the country. huge no-no for perkins and his crowd. and then this thing happened today. i just spoke to perkins. he said i haven't heard from steele. i had the shot across the bow to steele this morning. i still haven't heard from him. what does that mean? it to me it means that steele is hiding under his desk. >> and sarah palin who only takes an hour off from the news cycle
how big is this? >> well i think it's big. the family research council is not the entire conservative base by any means, but tony perkins is is a pretty sophisticated player. behind the scenes, he says, because i talked to him about an hour ago. he said, look, i've been trying to help michael steele out for the last year. help him survive. because michael steele only won narrowly to become chairman to begin with. two weeks ago, michael steele hired to represent the rnc in a campaign...
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almost no win big in november? the gop is counting on it, but democrats say republicans are putting their jobs ahead of yours. >> they don't want the jobs bill because they don't want people to get jobs before the election. >> over repettant. formerly anti-gay preacher ed haggard said he has been too sorry about his very pro-gay massage and wants to take back some of his apology. and a big tea party take back. >> would you tell those dumbas at the tea party to stop asking questions about birth certificates? >> will the tea party get the last laugh on senate candidate ken buck? all that and more now on "countdown." >> i can't get that message through. >> good evening from los angeles. i'm lawrence o'donnell in for keith olbermann. the documents revealed day by brutal day the truth about the nine-year conflict. the war in raf stan is deteriorating and has been for many years now. our fifth story, the situation in afghanistan is being widely debated tonight in the wake of one of the biggest leaks in u.s. military hist
almost no win big in november? the gop is counting on it, but democrats say republicans are putting their jobs ahead of yours. >> they don't want the jobs bill because they don't want people to get jobs before the election. >> over repettant. formerly anti-gay preacher ed haggard said he has been too sorry about his very pro-gay massage and wants to take back some of his apology. and a big tea party take back. >> would you tell those dumbas at the tea party to stop asking...
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. >>> the next big push, financial reform. senator dodd's bill goes public. >> there is a broad consensus we need to reform the financial system, protect consumers, need to provide more accountable, more transparency in our lending institutions. >> tonight, michael moore of capitalism, a love story on why you have to care about this, and whether congress is capable of real reform. judicial activist, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas starts her own tea party type lobbying firm, a firm that can spend up limited money on campaigns, thanks to her husband and four others on the supreme court. we'll examine the conflict of interest with constitutional law expert jonathan turly. all that and more now on "countdown." >>> good evening from new york. i'm lawrence o'donnell in for keith olbermann. over the past months, all of you have joined us in getting to know him and his struggles through his son. he was an architect, baseball fan, devoted husband, proud father, and grandfather. and now it falls to me to report that o
. >>> the next big push, financial reform. senator dodd's bill goes public. >> there is a broad consensus we need to reform the financial system, protect consumers, need to provide more accountable, more transparency in our lending institutions. >> tonight, michael moore of capitalism, a love story on why you have to care about this, and whether congress is capable of real reform. judicial activist, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas starts her own tea party...
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the big broad sheets you page through with a morning appetite. over a bowl of cheerios. that's why i'm happy to see "the wall street journal" launched an additional section for papers sold in the new york city area. metro section dedicated to covering local news, politics and sports. the first time "the journal" has rolled out a local edition. owner rupert murdoch means for it to challenge "the new york times" for readership and city reporting. i say more national media devoted to covering local issues the better. let's get the trend going in cities other than new york and let's hope, this is big-time, the editorial pages of "the wall street journal" stay exactly where they are, apart from the news. i'm getting to like this saturday "journal" not because of peggy noonan. let's keep that part of the paper clear of the poor attitudes that run on editorial pages. >>> next, decider on the record. we got our first look at president bush's memoirs. a book his publisher says centers around 14 key decisions bush made over his lifetime. his publisher says that since leaving offic
the big broad sheets you page through with a morning appetite. over a bowl of cheerios. that's why i'm happy to see "the wall street journal" launched an additional section for papers sold in the new york city area. metro section dedicated to covering local news, politics and sports. the first time "the journal" has rolled out a local edition. owner rupert murdoch means for it to challenge "the new york times" for readership and city reporting. i say more national...
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too big to fail means too small to succeed. you'll see it tonight, it gives everybody an opportunity. >> got to run, senator. >> thank you. >> tonight in my survey i asked you if bipartisanship was important. here are the results. stay with msnbc tonight for the complete coverage of the state of the union address. hardball with chris matthews starts right now. >>> big night. let's play "hardball." leading off tonight. good evening. i'm chris matthews. obama meeting the country. the president addresses a congested congress and a frustrated country. he need not tell us the state. he needs to tell us he knows the state we're in, which i believe he knows full well. he needs to show people how his economic policies are working, how they avoided the great depression, how that stimulus money is creating real, tangible you can see them jobs. he needs to replace faith-based politics with show-me-the-money politics. here is what we know the president is expected to push congress to pass a major job bill and try once again to get republic
too big to fail means too small to succeed. you'll see it tonight, it gives everybody an opportunity. >> got to run, senator. >> thank you. >> tonight in my survey i asked you if bipartisanship was important. here are the results. stay with msnbc tonight for the complete coverage of the state of the union address. hardball with chris matthews starts right now. >>> big night. let's play "hardball." leading off tonight. good evening. i'm chris matthews. obama...
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when orrin hatch says, hey, we never used reconciliation for big substantive bills when the vote would be close when he said it would be unprecedented he's not telling the truth. it is a lie. health reform passed the senate by 60 votes. it passed the house by a majority. now democrats are going to pass the last fixes to align the two bills using reconciliation. republicans used reconciliation a lot, for major legislation. they did it all the time and they're now lying about that record. orrin hatch in particular has been there voting with them while they did it just about every single time. and now orrin hatch is lying about that in "the washington post." and "the washington post" is just printing the lying. who knows, maybe they'll run a correction. but meanwhile, chuck grassley, lamar alexander, john mccain, orrin hatch, all these guys are taking brave, brave stands in public against their own positions, against their own voting records, against their own purported beliefs. it's one thing to not want health reform, to not want the other party and a president from the other party to g
when orrin hatch says, hey, we never used reconciliation for big substantive bills when the vote would be close when he said it would be unprecedented he's not telling the truth. it is a lie. health reform passed the senate by 60 votes. it passed the house by a majority. now democrats are going to pass the last fixes to align the two bills using reconciliation. republicans used reconciliation a lot, for major legislation. they did it all the time and they're now lying about that record. orrin...
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the big issue here is take a step back. can we think of any moment in time when mitt romney showed any guts? did anything that showed a spine? what happened with ted nugent? nothing. what about when that woman said barack obama should be put on trial for treason? nothing again. he didn't stand up. >> let's go to his motive. maybe his motive is not to be courageous. maybe he doesn't want to be like john mccain. maybe he wants to be seen as a guy who goes down with the right as far as he can go. maybe he wants us to say he's so far right he's hanging out with the birthers. >> he knows, he knows, that the name of the game for the next five months is convincing the independent who's he alienated by making love to the conservatives, or trying to, and bringing them aboard, and asking like that moderate reasonable governor that he once was. >> i'm not saying their moderates. >> there's a lot of -- >> no i'm not saying that, they like a moderate temperament. they don't want somebody who is severely conservative or hanging out with
the big issue here is take a step back. can we think of any moment in time when mitt romney showed any guts? did anything that showed a spine? what happened with ted nugent? nothing. what about when that woman said barack obama should be put on trial for treason? nothing again. he didn't stand up. >> let's go to his motive. maybe his motive is not to be courageous. maybe he doesn't want to be like john mccain. maybe he wants to be seen as a guy who goes down with the right as far as he...
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